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ls'lide D in place when not operated.

c c, and the bag is now lready to'he hlled while the suck is being ll'ed, its weig GIDEON sMoKER AND vJones' sMoKER, OF'SMITHVILLE, cetro.

Letters Patent No. 77.412, dated April 28, 1868.

comenten HAND-.TRUCK AND silex-HOLDER.

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To ALL WHoM ITZMAY oo'NcEnN:

Beit known'thnt we, GIDnoN Suolnn nud Jonas Sinons, of Smithville,in the county of "Wayne, and Ster-e of Ohio, have. invented certain lnew and useful Improvements in Hand-Trucks and Combined Sack-Holder and we do hereby declare that the following is a, fullclear,'and exact description thereof, reference being v had to the accompanyingdrawings, and to the lettors of reference marked thereon, which form-apart of'ths specification, in which- Figure 1 represents a plan view ofouri'nvention, o

Figure 2 n plan of the reverse side of the sliding-platform attachment, andi i Figure 3 is a. perspective view, showing the mouth ofthe sack open, when used in connection with our device. The nature of this-'invention consists inthe employment of a sliding platform, to which are attached springs,

as and for the purpose hereinafter set forth.

To enable others skilled in theart to make and use our invention` we'will now describe its construction and operation.

Areprescnts un ordinary hand-truek, and B B its wheels. v o C Crepresent'two metal springs, secured at their inner ends tothe sliding platform D and curved or bent at their outer ends, the object of which will be more apparent hereafter.

D'repres'ents thesliding'platform,'maidens seen` in iig. 2,'whih slides yback and forth in grooves cut inthe sides of thetruck. i Snid slide is designed to allow the springs to accommodate themselves to sacks of :my size.

c c represent two hooks or pinsfrplaced on the ,under side ofthe platform D, for the purpose of holding or securing ono side of the mouth of the sack -to the trnck,'the other side of the sack being held by the springs C C. Thus it will beseenthat by this arrangement the mouth of the sack will be'held open.

F F designate tivo sliding rods, whichare furnished witl'rspira'll springs. Said rods re secured to the'under I side of the truck, one of their ends being fastened to-.the slide D, and their opposite ends playing. back and forth in Vguides e e, on the lateral brace Gv; The object of this arrangement istoenable the platform'D to be operated when necessary.V t 4 It will be observedthat the guides e e, and the loweronds o f the springs CC, furnish shoulders, whereby the springs on rods F Fare held in position.V l i m m represent two curved metal bands,plaeed over the upper ends of the frame' of-the truck, to keepthe The operation of our invention is asfollows: The tr the sack secured thereto, by tuckii'lg` onefsdeiund It n'illbe observed that by means of'our de springs `to which; the sack is attached, sind allow the sack. t'o rest Vin its proper place von the truck.

` Having thus described onrinventio-n, what we clairn as new, and'desire to seciire by'Letters Pa.tent,iis'- Theeombinntionfsof the hand-trucl'Awith sli-dingplatiorm D, arrangedto slide in grooves in the s ides of the truekfrnmc,' said platform bengpro'vided-with springs C C and rods F F, upon wl1-ieh dre spiral springs ee, all arrnnged as and for the purpose set forth. v

In tostimo'nythntwo clnim'the foregoing as our own, we hav'nxed our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

GIDEON SMOKER, .i JONAS SMOKER. Witnesses: v l' A, E; LnHMAN, HENRY LEHMsN.

is placed in a vertical position, and the mouth of A er the springs C C, and 4thel other side under the pins or' hook vice sacksof di'erentsizes can befsecured tothe truck, for*vk ht will cause the sliding platfo`rm to mo.ve downwards, and thus lower the 

